Had he observed this, he would have understood that, before trying to check reproduction, the right of increase should be abolished; because, wherever that right is tolerated, there are always too many inhabitants, whatever the extent or fertility of the soil.
It will be asked, perhaps, how I would maintain a balance between population and production; for sooner or later this problem must be solved.

The reader will pardon me, if I do not give my method here.

For, in my opinion, it is useless to say a thing unless we prove it.

Now, to explain my method fully would require no less than a formal treatise.
It is a thing so simple and so vast, so common and so extraordinary, so true and so misunderstood, so sacred and so profane, that to name it without developing and proving it would serve only to excite contempt and incredulity.

One thing at a time.